The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast is less than one month away and Mikey Wright might don the singlet!
BeachGrit runs off your fumes. Without you we are but clanging gongs, empty vessels, and this may seem mealy-mouthed but it is entirely true. There was a time in my life when I refused to respond to online comments, Twitter things, etc. or even read them. It felt less cool to go and mix in the lowly places. How wrong I was. The lowly places are the only ones that truly exist. There is no highbrow art being created in our surf world. No cloistered few elevating the conversation. There is only this and this is very fun.
Yesterday, for example, the wonderful longtom had a legitimate question below an illegitimate post. He asked:
Sorry to change the subject, but will Quik hand out another wildcard to Dane for Snapper? Or have they now all OD’d on disappointment?Anyone got any inside info? Nick Carroll: you’re in bed with Quiksilver, do you know?
And I thought, yeah! I wonder too! Nick Carroll is so esteemed but I thought take this little morsel off his plate so reached out to a well-placed surf industry source as handsome as he is spirited. And guess who else reads your comments! He said:
My people there are telling me that, after reading all the comments on BeachGrit, there is some serious thought about giving it to Mikey Wright. Nothing official yet…
Mikey Wright would be so welcomed, no? Dane is, of course, so very exciting, but longtom is also so very right. Almost always disappointing. And older. And motivated? The internal fire in that boy seemed choked even in the best of years. Do you think he is looking back at his decision to step away from Quiksilver, right now, and thinking, “Hmmmmmmmm.” Do you think Ando is looking back at his own decision and saying, “SHIT! Shit shit shit shit shit SHIT!”
Quiksilver does look so very reinvigorated, fresh, young, happy, free. I am excited for the Snapper event. I am excited to see Mikey unofficially soar. The future is bright!
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Wright on Wright….A surfing podcast with the Wright’s
If only more women would come around to this line of thinking.
well it’s nice that you come down with the common people and interact Chas.
On Mikey Wright, keep expectations in check. He will get chewed up and spat out in 30 min man on man heat.
Slater jedi mind games will melt the back wings of that mullet right off
you need to be a top seed to draw a wildcard. Slater’s no top seed.
That’s where I was wrong, don’t you see? You weren’t common. I was! Now I look at all other websites where the story’s author thinks he is somehow above the reparte. Silly! Silly and backward!
Mikey will get smoked by they comp machines, but I dare to dream, a late season cyclone swell perchance? Inside out Kirra say late round 2, everything on the line…..
Are the Wright’s part Maori or Aboriginal? Serious question.
At a guess, No.
I would agree, but Mikey’s portrait looks a little Maori and it would also explain the size of Owen and the power of Tyler.
There are only 2 parts to Mikey Wright – business in the front, party in the back
as white as they come
And here I was thinking only a handful of people and my Mother read these comments… Mum fully supports Mikey as wildcard by the way Mr Anonymous high placed Quiksilver executive.
Bring on mikey with his Christian sanitarium wheatbix smile and bogan rituals quiky has all bases covered
And Kolohe has turf toe – do I smell injury wildcard for 2017?
While we’re talking toe injuries, are you or anyone here familiar with a weird surf bunion that you get on your back foot? Thing is fucking killing me.